Gary Benham

224 days to go - Guest Blogger #2 - Moleboheng Rampou

Moleboheng Rampou is my name, but I have come to be known as "Mo" or at least 'Molebz' as I have discovered my name is a tongue twister to most people that I have met since I have been in the UK. I was born and raised in Lesotho, Southern Africa, and no it is not part of the Republic South Africa.  That speck in the middle of RSA is a country - Lesotho.

Mo and her Chevening colleagues at their farewell reception.

I am a Chevening scholar, doing my MA Theatre and Media for Development here at the University of Winchester. My degree is actually in Theatre and Drama, and I minored in French - though I am very rusty in the language at the moment...

I applied for the course I am studying because I wanted to combine my first love, theatre, with my new found love, development. I say development is my new found love because I only recently started being really active in projects. I have always had a thing for helping people, in any way I could, but it was never on a large scale, and it was always haphazard, put together to just make it work then and if it did not, oh well...I tried!

This new found love has rather changed my outlook on life, and at this moment I can only say I feel like I am a toddler, taking those few new tentative steps into the big (bad?) world!

I love reading, and I have an inquisitive mind - basically that is how I landed up here. I have a thing for writing, and have even been on stage a couple of times performing a piece or two!

I love travelling and exploring, though I should point out that this is my first trip 'overseas'.

TOMORROW Mo will give us her first impressions of life in the UK.....

Posted at 13:33 29 October 2009 by Gary Benham  |  Comments[0]